I'm curious, I've been curious about it since I was a teen, and the more I think about it, it seems like it would be an exciting career for me. I personally have a talent for building and portraying various voices of personal characters, and a few sound-a-like voices, but it means nothing if I can't put it to good use. Anyone have any suggestions?
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They key to becoming a voice actor is to be, well, an actor. Having a good voice range is great, but it's meaningless if you can't actually act. Take acting lessons and start doing stage work. Also keep in mind that getting into voice acting is probably impossible unless you live in LA or Texas.
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Ty for your response, yes indeed. Though a small bit from LA, I'm not exactly far from it, only about 30mins, depending on traffic that is, ha.
The same way one does anything, practice, determination, dedication, and a good agent! XD
But yeah really it helps greatly if you have had some previous experience, many VA's for cartoons started out doing Stage-Plays or things like that, so yeah previous acting experience, along with lessons, and of course just a natural knack/talent for it are all pretty helpful.
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I would hope someone would learn how to place emotion into the voice used.
all those emotions.
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Basically 5 things:
1. You need to live in a place as the studio. (big major acting firms are based out of LA or NY)
2. You need to be talented. No sounding like your reading a book to kids. It needs to sound REAL. Nobody wants voice acting that sounds like the VA on the original resident evil game.
3. Entertaining voice.
4. Able to stay into character.
5. Be able to travel. Alot. Companies tend to change Voice acting studios ALOT. One season you may be in LA, the next, Chicago.